Factual Reality Quotes

The great tragedy of Science --- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 2

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.